Grand Canyon

What could have been a truly riveting story of geology, erosion, and plate tectonics turned into a snooze-fest. I struggled mightily for 160 pages, then determined it was not worth the pain of continuing. I’m a huge geology buff when written in a way that conveys excitement and scientific progress. This seemed to be “book report”-ish, with several pages of direct quotes from Charles Dutton’s book on the Grand Canyon.
Basic premise: John Wesley Powell rafts down the Colorado twice and proves that the river cut the canyon, not the biblical flood. One interesting item was that the plateau was formed by the river pushing the land upwards over time.